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Quotes About Mobility

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
~ Bill Janklow
One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-conflicted countries - is that it has long enjoyed a benefit no other modern nation in the world could claim: the ability to engage in ceaseless, endless movement outward.
~ Greg Grandin
The more worried you are about failure, the heavier the armor you put on. But armor always has a side effect of reduced mobility. The overarmored organization has lost the ability to move and move quickly. When this happens, standard process is the cause of lost mobility. It is, however, not the root cause. The root cause is fear.
~ Tom DeMarco
As defense against failure, standard process is a kind of armor. The more worried you are about failure, the heavier the armor you put on. But armor always has a side effect of reduced mobility.
~ Tom DeMarco
It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.
~ Tom Felton
In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
The contemporary sedentary is someone who feels at home everywhere, thanks to cellphones, and the nomad is someone who does not feel at home anywhere, someone who is excluded, ostracized.
~ Paul Virilio
Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.
~ Cory Arcangel
The one market that seemed to be guaranteed for oil for a very long time was transportation and, specifically, the automobile. No longer, not on the "Roadmap" to the future. For oil now faces a sudden challenge from the New Triad: the electric car, which uses no oil; "mobility as a service," ride-hailing and ride-sharing; and cars that drive themselves. The result could be a contest for dominance in a new trillion-dollar industry: "Auto-Tech.
~ Daniel Yergin
how fast will electric vehicles penetrate the global auto fleet? In 2019 they constituted less than 3 percent of total new car sales worldwide. But ambitions are high.
~ Daniel Yergin
Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.
~ Dave Eggers
People move up here pretty reliably, and as you know we hire almost exclusively from within.
~ Dave Eggers
Strange as it may seem, the Air Force, except in the air, is the least mobile of all the services. A squadron can reach its destination in a few hours, but its establishments, depots, fuel, spare parts, and workshops take many weeks, and even months, to develop.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Time was the dominating factor. The extraordinary mobility and unexpectedness of amphibious power can, as has been shown, only be exerted in strict relation to limited periods of time. The surprise, the rapidity, and the intensity of the attack are all dependent on the state of the enemy's preparations at a given moment.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The notion that egalitarian purposes could be served by the "restoration" of upward mobility betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding. High rates of mobility are by no means inconsistent with a system of stratification that concentrates power and privilege in a ruling elite. Indeed, the circulation of elites strengthens the principle of hierarchy, furnishing elites with fresh talent and legitimating their ascendancy as a function of merit rather than birth.
~ Christopher Lasch
Máte-li nohu v sád?e, b?hem šesti týdn? svaly atrofují o ?ty?icet až šedesát procent. Cosi podobného se stane s vaším chodidlem, je-li uv?zn?no v bot?.
~ Christopher McDougall
We've become obsessed with things that affect the way we look, instead of the way we move.
~ Christopher McDougall
I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.
~ Claire Cook
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
~ Unknown
I took so long coming to the door. I had no idea crutches were so damned tricky. I imagined myself swinging jauntily along, but they dig into your armpits like I don't know what.
~ Liane Moriarty
Depending on the day's training intensity, we stretch, work on mobility, everything to prepare myself well. Later, we train, and depending on the day we do more physical work, more technical or more tactical. The duration also varies between 45 minutes and an hour and a half.
~ Raphael Varane
Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
~ Lars Onsager
From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services.
~ Karl Iagnemma
There will be new businesses that will digitally enable the planning and consumption of passenger and goods movement to be more efficient, enjoyable, productive, safer, cleaner, and cheaper. That could mean everything from maintaining vehicle fleets to remote monitoring.
~ Cathy Engelbert